2 June 2014

Nudging people into better decisions

Professor Max Bazerman
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr David Halpern
CEO, Behavioural Insights Team (UK)

Australian Financial Review

Imagine a world where education, healthcare, and even tax collection is built around our busy lives as citizens, rather than the other way around. That's the future imagined by behavioural scientists Max Bazerman and David Halpern, speakers at the Centre's Behavioural Exchange 2014 conference.

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Professor Max Bazerman
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Professor Max Bazerman is co-chair of the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group. He is also the co-director of the Center for Public Leadership (with David Gergen) at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Bazerman's research focuses on decision making...
Dr David Halpern
CEO, Behavioural Insights Team (UK)
David Halpern visited the US Studies Centre in 2014. He is the Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team and Board Director, having led the team since its inception in 2010. Prior to that, Halpern was the founding Director of the Institute for Government. Between 2001 and 2007, he was the Chief Analyst at the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (UK).

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